Vampire Survivors developer Poncle has revealed that it’s at the moment engaged on a variety of updates for the reverse bullet hell sport.
In an end-of-year round up, Luca ‘Poncle’ Galante began by speaking concerning the “mindblowing” response to Vampire Survivors and the success of its first growth, Legacy Of The Moonspell.
“Throughout the summer season we began to speak about DLC (downloadable content material) internally and I might normally go for 4 characters, eight weapons, and one easy stage’, solely to finish up with our first DLC having double the characters, 13 weapons, and 1 stage that’s all however easy in comparison with the others,” defined Galante.
He continued: “I used to be completely terrified to launch it because it was the primary utterly new factor we put up on the market, however as soon as once more reception was mindblowing and we obtained flooded by constructive suggestions, so thanks as soon as once more for making it a hit.”
“When you like these sort of content material packs, then there might be extra coming,” he added earlier than explaining how DLCs “will solely ever add extra characters/weapons/levels and that the principle sport will preserve getting up to date repeatedly with fundamental sport mechanics and content material in order that no key-feature will ever be gatekept by a paywall.”
As a consequence of a busy finish of 2022 that noticed Vampire Survivors obtain its 1.0 replace and get shock launched on cell, Poncle has mentioned that future patches might be launched at a slower tempo in comparison with 2022.
That mentioned, “there’s numerous stuff, not completely associated to Vampire Survivors, getting made behind the scenes in Poncle,” he teased.
“There’s one thing bizarre and large (by way of pixels) coming quickly to the Steam public-beta, and for the reason that Legacy Of The Moonspell DLC has been a hit, The Directer will quickly provide to take the survivors to one more world in seek for the vampire. The experience solely ends while you resolve to get off! Or we discover a vampire, I suppose.”
Elsewhere within the letter, Galante detailed how builders had been “compelled” to launch Vampire Survivors on cell, so “we nonetheless have a number of options that we’ve to implement or polish, an important one being cloud saves and save switch (doubtlessly save merging too), however since we’re nonetheless with no backend/full stack engineer, this would possibly find yourself taking longer than anticipated.”
He went on to say Poncle is making Legacy Of The Moonspell obtainable on cell as quickly as attainable as properly.
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